The students and cultural organisations of Rajshahi University held cultural programmes and launched a mass signature campaign on Tuesday, demanding the immediate opening of the Teachers and Students Cultural Centre at the institution.
Around 200 general students, members of the Progressive Students Alliance, platform of four leftist student organisations, and Kendrya Sangskritik Jote, platform of more than 15 cultural organisations, gathered in front the university central library at about 11:00am and staged cultural performances and collected signatures.
The speakers at the programme demanded opening of the TSCC building after immediate completion of its construction work.
They complained that although the authorities had more than once assured them of taking measures in this regard but they did not keep their word.
They also demanded the implementation of the policy regarding the operation of the TSCC, approved at the last syndicate meeting in January this year.
They threatened to go for tougher movement, including holding strikes, if their demands were not met soon.
Chowdhury Muhammad Zakaria, proctor of the university, came to the spot in the afternoon and assured the gathering that measures would be soon taken on the matter.
Later on he told the reporters that the issue would be raised at the upcoming syndicate meeting on 27th June.
The authorities would give space to the cultural organisations to run their activities until the TSCC was opened, he added.
-With New Age input
